Beer of Tomorrow

Holding On to Summer: Our Favorite Posts from August 2012

The Labor Day holiday weekend is here, and for most of the country that signals the end of summer. Thankfully Los Angeles gets another few weeks of warm and sunny days that are perfect for enjoying a fine craft beer. We’ve gathered up our favorite posts from the last month so you can read any you might have missed over the long weekend, with a beer at-hand of course!

LA Beer Week is just around the corner, and our post on preparing for a festival will help you make the most of the many events going down in LA September 20th through the closing festival on the 30th! Pro Tip #1: Eggs.

There is a good conversation going in the comments on this post about snobbery in the craft beer scene. Have you experienced any? Do you have any advice to help people new to craft beer climb the learning curve without being discouraged?

The Blue Palms party was one of the best combos of awesome beers and even more awesome people all year. Brian did an amazing job putting this together, and looking back over the post we are even more excited for the Union Station festival on September 30th!

Our visit to Monkish Brewing in Torrance was a great introduction to the beers and the hard-working people behind them. The post has tasting notes on seven out of nine of Monkish’s beers, as well as the history of the operation.

Revisiting one of the first events we posted about on the site, our second evening of tasting New Zealand craft beers included the limited edition Wellington in a Pint boxed set and an amazing beer with a very interesting ingredient that instantly became a new favorite.

September: Autumn, Football, and BEER

September is going to be big. Lots of big events, capped-off by LA Beer Week, some new features that we are working on for the site, and of course the arrival of many fall-seasonal beers.